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A Sprunk billboard in GTA San Andreas.

A Sprunk vending machine, as seen in GTA IV.

Trevor Philips walking away from a burning truck with a Sprunk vending machine in the background.

Sprunk is a carbonated lemon lime beverage claimed in a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas radio commercial to contain "10 times the caffeine and sugar", mixed with mercury, ether and benzene, and packaged in fragmentation grenade-shaped cans. The Sprunk logo and color scheme are a caricature of Sprite and "spunk", a slang term for semen. The company's slogan since GTA IV has been "The Essence of Life".

Sprunk returns yet again in GTA V, now playing a more notable role in the game. A few vehicles (see below) can be obtained in Sprunk liveries, most likely used to promote the drink. Sprunk soda machines also return in GTA V, working the same way as they do in GTA IV.

The name is a play on of "Spunk", a slang term for semen. This is reinforced by the Sprunk motto "The Essence of Life." The rising bubbles on the logo also resemble sperm.

The allusion to sperm may itself be a reference to various (false) urban legends connecting Mountain Dew to sperm loss.

In GTA San Andreas, a Sprunk billboard featuring a short-haired woman can be found on the southern edge of Jefferson, Los Santos (next to the east-west expressway into the commercial heart of Los Santos), with the slogan "A Taste of Things to Come". Following a car chase during "Reuniting the Families" that ends with the gang's car crashing through the billboard, the billboard's slogan, partially cut away by a clean hole created from the crash, now reads "A Taste of _______Come", referring to "cum" (an informal term for semen). The billboard piece can in fact be destroyed before "Reuniting The Families" using any weapon, however the billboard will revert to its pre-Reuniting the Families appearance when going far enough from it.

Sprunk co-exists with ECola, an obvious parody Coca-Cola. In reality, Sprite is a brand owned by Coca-Cola. In GTA IV, cans of Sprunk can be obtained from ECola vending machines, implying Sprunk may be owned by ECola in the HD Universe.

In GTA IV, Sprunk vending machines instead produce cans of Orang-O-Tang, cans of Sprunk can be obtained, but only from ECola machines.

In EFLC, during the commercial for Sprunk Extreme for the Base Jumping, there's a segment where a person is jumping with a Caddy to a Sprunk billboard in Star Junction. This might be a nod to the San Andreas' mission Reuniting the Families, where the Grove Street gang crash their car through a Sprunk billboard. However, in the EFLC commercial, the Caddy explodes when trying to crash the billboard.

In GTA V, "stalking" Sprunk's page on the Lifeinvader's real life website grants the player a free vending machine order, provided the player connects Lifeinvader on the Social Club.